"How Orgone Cinema Treats Its Visiting Filmmakers": My 164th movie - made in collaboration w/ Orgone Cinema using a high speed Fastex 16mm camera - shot by Michael Johnsen - in January of 1995 - w/ sound added in May of the same yr & minor optical printing done at Michael's place sometime later.   Orgone Cinema (the film & vaudeo presenting group of Greg Pierce, Alisa Dix, & Johnsen) brought me from Canada (where I was living at the time) to Pittsburgh to present 2 screenings of my work.  Their hospitality & appreciativeness was extraordinary & I had such a good time that I decided to move there a yr later.  They'd previously made a high-speed film w/ visiting filmmaker Kurt Kren & gave me the same opportunity.  I choreographed this.  I was hanging upside-down from a clothes-bar facing away from the camera w/ a mask on backwards over my head.  Fertilized duck eggs were thrown at me, while the mask was pulled off by Sharyn Lee Frederick & a bucket of water was poured over me.  The camera was also upside-down so that the shot has the appearance of being right-side-up - giving the illusion that the water is going contrary to gravity by pouring UP instead of DOWN.  2 takes were shot - each taking about 6 seconds.  Technically, getting the exposure right under these conditions was difficult & what success there was was due to Michael's expertise.  Since the shots were so quick & the playback is so long (almost 30 times slower than the original speed), my head seems unnaturally still - giving it a corpse-like quality.  The title is ironic in the sense that, when taken literally, it means just what it says: this is an example of how Orgone Cinema treats its visiting filmmakers - however, when taken figuratively (as most people are probably likely to do), it seems that the title implies that Orgone metaphorically threw eggs at me as an unhospitable criticism.  This latter was far from the case & is allowed as a possibility in the title for humor's sake.  - April 2009EV notes from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE 

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